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Seven Kurdish border guards killed in Iraqi
Kurdistan ambush
16.7.2007 |
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July
16, 2007
Sulaimaniyah, Kurdistan region (Iraq), --
Gunmen killed seven Kurdish border guards Peshmerga
and a civilian on Sunday in an ambush on the Iranian
frontier near Penjwin, in the autonomous Kurdistan
region, a security official said.
"At 9.00 am (0500 GMT) one of our patrols came under
attack from unidentified gunmen," said Brigadier
General Ahmed Deskara, a senior border guard
commander stationed in the nearby city of
Sulaimaniyah.
One of the seven guards killed was an officer, he
added.
Border guards have come under attack in the past
from an extreme Islamist group which calls itself
Al-Qaeda in Kurdistan -- formerly Ansar al-Islam --
which operates along the porous border between Iran
and Iraq. |
Mullah Krekar, the founder of radical and Terrorist
Islamist group Ansar al-Islam. Krekar, whose real
name is Fateh Najmeddin Faraj |
An Islamic group Ansar al-Islam affiliated with
Al-Qaeda claims responsibility for killing seven
Kurdish border guards on a website where they have
posted statements in the past, but it was not
possible to verify the claim.
Ansar al-Islam terrorist attacks in Kurdistan region
(Iraq):
In May 2005 a suicide bomber
killed at least 60 people and
wounded 150 more when he blew himself
up at the office of a Kurdish party in the northern
Iraqi city of Erbil
On
May 9, 2007 a suicide truck
bomber from Ansar al-Islam kills 19, wounds 70 in
Iraqi Kurdistan's capital of Erbil, Kurdish Ansar
al-Islam terrorist group has
claimed responsibility
for the blast.
May 13 was another bloody day for the Kurds, a
suicide car bomb targeted the headquarters of the
KDP party in Makhmour city in Kurdistan region
killed at least 30 people and
wounded 115 others including the
city's mayor. Nine members of Ansar al-Islam were
arrested for these terrorist attacks. Security
forces in Iraq’s Kurdistan autonomous region have
arrested several followers of previously tolerated
Islamist parties, accusing them of links to
insurgents.
Krekar, whose real name is Fateh Najmeddin Faraj,
has lived in Norway as a refugee since 1991, and has
been under threat of deportation since Norwegian
media revealed he was the founder of the radical
Islamist group Ansar al-Islam. The
Ansar al-Islam,
listed as a terrorist organization by
United States and
Kurdistan region (Iraq).
AFP | Reuters
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